the british who want independence from america but calls to close a u.s. spy base that's being lined up as a part of a star wars type missile shield. europe's open borders hit a dead end brings back the barriers angering e.u. colleagues who say it violates the cornerstone of the euro unity also. in some cases i think we are a threat to the army pressure attempts to supply libyan rebels with arms surface as authorities claim they've intercepted boats are loaded with weapons or from qatar. and as japan reveals almost a half of the children living near the fukushima plant have been exposed to

radiation look at how the crisis is leading to a new and nuclear solution in neighboring china. he with r.t. live from moscow i'm rory scene shaped welcome to the program first and independence day march with a difference this time it's the british trying to drive the americans out of a major military facility as people become part of a missile defense shield similar to the 1980's star wars project as our cesar laurean reports activists are demanding the base be taken off british soil accuse the u.s. of following a cold war criteria. it's no wooden reforged of july celebration it based top secret u.s. military base here it's a little piece of america in the hearts of the. case yorkshire dales where it is

who are demanding independence from america. symbolizes what's wrong with the special relationship between britain and you know states we have a base it's on us control which the british government and british people have no control menwith hill is the largest intel gathering and surveillance space outside the us there are thirty two satellite dishes housed inside the huge golf ball structures which can eavesdrop on telephone calls faxes and e-mails from around the world it's been operational since the one nine hundred sixty s. but now it's set to become part of the controversial missile defense shield to alert the u.s. to any launch of ballistic missiles as in poland and the czech republic where the u.s. also plan to cite bases locals who worry that having the facility here will put the area in danger heightening the risk of an attack by anyone who wants to disable the

shield but unlike in eastern europe the government here has put up no fight at all in fact it doesn't even know what goes on here there isn't a single british official in parliament or in the intelligence services who could give you a full picture of what is happening in this space it's the culmination of former u.s. president ronald reagan's dream as his statue was unveiled in london on monday menwith hill embodied what reagan in visit in the early warning missile detection system that was dubbed the star wars program it's secretive based for away from u.s. soil and some say it's a step towards the u.s. domination and militarization of space people demonstrate here campaigning for the closure of this space and the others like it around the country they want to reclaim this land and bring it back under the control of the british government and its people it's not working though as men with help becomes part of the missile defense shield it's building another golf ball satellite structure bringing the

total to thirty three despite local and international opposition growing not reducing the u.s. is influence in europe your edits menwith hill yorkshire. well russia has wanted a joint european missile shield solution for quite some time but it's still falling on deaf ears inside nato as was proved at the summit in sochi the alliance also won't guarantee its own project will not target russia later we hear from a leading american scientist who says that obama's team are rolling along with the bush era policies. the bush plan was first discarded by president obama where he came into power it is no longer a whole new. would be more agreeable to the russians now that we have actual numbers instead of being less of a concern going from the bush administration to the obama. this is raised all sorts of red flags in russia.

so that interview is coming your way later this hour now the free flow across europe borders has hit the buffers but they're not pledging to restore checkpoints at crossings from germany and sweden and your colleagues are furious saying it violates europe's much heralded open border agreement party so many political not reports on how it signals wiring times ahead for the uk. but denise officials insist that this is to prevent drug flow and illegal migrants from entering the country but the move has been regarded as a bad sign not just by the left wing politicians and the opposition in denmark itself but also has been severely opposed to why the e.u. officials in brussels and especially by denmark's neighbor germany they insist that this is a violation of the good agreements of the open borders in europe and they also say that this is not a wise move at all to make during

a particularly volatile time for the european union when countries are bickering over border disputes and over cash and money issues some believe that this actually may signal the end all through united europe but the danish officials insist that this will last cause any damage to the free flow of traffic tourists and transportation across the border we have to remember that this is not the very first border disputes of course the problem of illegal migrants is particularly better one right now for the european union earlier this year france and italy have sort of rather bitter dispute over the flow of illegal migrants across their borders and we also have to take to keep in mind the fact that the extremely well as a situation in northern africa is not going to help the situation in any way since most of the migrants who do come to europe who do flood countries like denmark belgium or italy and france actually do come mostly from the northern african region so this particular move by the danish officials may actually send quite

a worrisome signal to other european countries who may also follow suit. or when you go to school reporting that still ahead for you this hour here on our show you the i'm going to use not quite over for dominique strauss kahn i.m.f. chief is about to face fresh sexual assault charges. here as are likely to be a very different kind of foul play behind the cloud. plus at the russian it children with a rare skin disease who are deprived of state support for their condition now one parents taking the fight to the heart of the medical establishment. the libyan officials say that they have intercepted it from qatar carrying a cache of weapons for rebel forces in the country it's said to load including about one hundred belgian made assault rifles along with thousands of rounds of ammunition so far only the french admit to supplying weapons to libyan anti government forces brian johnson thomas

a former arms trafficking expert for the un security council says it's a dangerous the violation of the arms embargo. seems to me very strange we're going about it and i thought the arms embargo was laid down by the security council was quite clear that it was arms to both sides were embargoed we know that for example some of the rich and some somalia went to libya for training with the last two or three years just documented we have the fly records and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western support of some of the rebel groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases of it we are effectively arming al-qaeda. well for months on nato as protracted intervention in libya has yet to yield its desired result even as the alliance battles accusations of violating its new word mandate but a political blogger rosoff believes a peace mission was never high on the coalition's priority list. thirteen thousand made earlier missions over a country of six american origin fever including with nato itself

a knowledge of the five thousand combat missions it's not a war. you know this is not simply a question of your protecting libyan civilians from government violence and so forth this is a concerted long term military action nato it's the world's really military force it's one that is in charge of the two major wars in the world right now there was an airfield on the superman movie or i think you know we did this film with you know my group points of contention but i think we should not be confused about the worth of the nature of the really truly organization. the middle east expert about things that the west rushed to support the opposition in libya without really assessing who they are. who really believe there's been messing with it in transition from theater as in not even if you and in no means can eat gluten and you really think it's going to be raised in any media i don't think so and very often that most people members of congress who piece point our full conversation

with the parameter on our website right now that's our t.v. dot com. it's now at ten minutes past the hour here in moscow a french writer is to file charges of attempted rape against former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss kahn she claims that she was attacked in two thousand and two his lawyers say they will soon for slander it's emerged as a star scans in new york a sex assault case teeters on collapse as prosecutors a question here's a accuser's credibility a former white house executive believes the next official could be a victim of political foul play. the french press has reported that strouse current share before you became her to the united states a bad turkey expected start cozily it took a some french woman a million euros to bring sixty. it's against him. and he said that was because he

was leading a sarkozy in the polls for the presidency and that he stressed crimes here and that would be a circus whose response and drink the press has taken this seriously i think he got in trouble because he began questioning the house use of its power to force the cost of the bailout of the banks onto the backs of just ordinary people the story questioning that he was reading in the united states with you can't miss joseph stiglitz who's a big critic oh that way of bailing out the banks and i think he was sending signals that upset the financial community so it may have helped him with ordinary people but you can't have made him a target for. the establishment. i mean while you head of the international monetary fund is officially beginning the job

of former french finance minister christine lagarde one overwhelmingly backing the i.m.f. last week having beaten at mexico's central bank but there is a full in train for the first woman to take the fun job of the e.u. is financial struggles and greece on the critical most. cars around us they can help but say there's a lot in common between the greek economic troubles and america's mounting debts now here's what's to come because a report next. times the i.m.f. is after the u.s. next s. and p. one of the rating agencies that work hand in hand with these international banks there is that managing director john chambers spoke to reuters and he said quote if the u.s. government misses a payment it goes to di di di di di that's lower than triple say and that's what they say greece is worth temple saying well why doesn't the greek army come out of their ratings report saying america's debts were the de there for sell your american debt. you need a place to put that cast by grief and will give you

a play all the options on the acropolis ourselves you don't need a good point for the job and sell the acropolis. because reporters next hour. now radiation has been detected in the thyroid so almost half of all children live in it and it's a question of acidity authorities are continuing to study the health effects of the nuclear crisis which sent safety shutters all around the world some like germany have already pledged to close all of its plants but there are countries convinced that there's a safe alternative as he morton reports from beijing. with the global spotlight firmly back on the safety of nuclear power following japan's tsunami and the problems at the fukushima daiichi plant china is looking at spearheading efforts to make the industry safer and much safer the chinese are investing millions in research into reactors powered by the element florian and metal proponents say as

common as lead and one which despite some concerns would lead to power plants with fewer safety issues as well as other benefits how you see your thore and based reactors certainly have advantages release from thore and is greater than from the arena and the by products from using thore and i was toxic them from uranium and it's much harder to make weapons from those my products for your. public outcry following the problems at the fukushima plant led to beijing putting a freeze on approvals of all new nuclear power stations and safety checks at the twenty seven currently under construction however with chinese electricity consumption growing at more than five percent a year and its current reliance on fossil fuels to generate that unsustainable it's unlikely the crisis in japan will dampen china's thirst for nuclear power. it's impossible for china to give up nuclear energy and china needs to make changes

to its energy structure which is closely linked to the need to reduce pollution carbon emissions and the overall direction of chinese development other new energies have no advantage in either techniques or resources. no one in china is under any illusions that the country desperately needs to find alternative clean ways to generate electricity the current reliance on coal which provides some eighty percent of chinese energy needs cost the economy more than two hundred billion dollars a year through air pollution alone and while beijing is investing heavily in of what will turn it eventually supplies nuclear power is seen as the best split by the chinese government the problem facing authorities is trying to convince a sometimes. just a republic but nuclear energy is a safe alternative so they are investing millions of dollars into foreign research like this in order to try and leave those theories to rest in so doing and maybe showing the rest of the world a new paltz to clean energy and remotes and i'll see beijing. l.l.c.

dot com is buy when ever you want more of the stories we're covering here let's take you through some of the items we have lined up for you right now. raul over a helicopter wash of a russian m.p. takes to the heavens to get to the church on time what causes misery at the monastery. plus the violent clashes between the cossacks and the police in ukraine's crimea dozens injured in a rollover demolishing an awful lot of video reports at the top. of the. wealthy british scientists on. the times.

market why not. why not what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report. with r.t. live from alaska let's have a look now at a couple of international headlines for you and iraqi officials say twenty five people have been killed and thirty wounded in a car bomb and roadside bombing just north of baghdad it comes as an attack on the embassy zone in baghdad killed four iraqi civilians officials say militants fired a rocket late on monday night during independence day celebrations of the american

embassy it hit a residential complex stuff the hotel workers and then sparked a fire there are no reports about casualties among embassy staff. britain's prime minister is promising a surge in financial aid to afghanistan despite the planned withdrawal of u.k. troops there but cameras around the country for a two day visit where he hoped to celebrate foreign forces progress in fighting insurgents but his plans were not after a soldier was captured and executed by the taliban. soon as you know has sentenced its former president in absentia to a fifteen year prison term for trafficking drugs weapons and archaeological artifacts a fortnight ago ben ali was the president and sentenced to thirty five years behind bars he fled to saudi arabia back in january after a month long rising requests for his extradition back to tennessee i have not been answered. now and they are the forgotten few of the russian children suffering from

a rare and didn't curable genetic disease which can leave them badly scarred and in acute pain until now it's been a virtually ignored by the medical establishment but one mother is hoping to change that but you may find some of the images in the area pushed her was reported upsetting. she likes dancing and no one would guess the amount of pain lisa goes through to make these simple movements weezer has a rare genetic condition a bitter mozes blows up or even that makes her skin less than as a butterfly when a slight touch or a hug can cause painful blistering that takes a long time to heal leaving the skin even more fragile. around the world sufferers like liza are known as butterfly children however in russia it's as if they don't exist recha grouping the doctors simply don't know of the disease and when you tell them what it is they might have heard of it but they don't know how to deal with it she knew these is only five but she already knows her diagnosis better than any

doctor her mother knows there is no cure and with proper medication her daughter could lead an almost normal life but it's way too expensive. it's such a rare disease that it's pretty much been forgotten about there's no states the court to there's no money and no specialists. yelled one of those a dermatologist and admits she's become a specialist by default no one else is dealing with patients but the mothers say her advice can conflict with what they've learned from abroad what you thought well is a very complex disease and so few patients suffering from it any doctor that would take it up would have to become a very narrow specialist i myself am tied up in many other places so i don't have much time for these patients. two year old nasty is a clear example of what good care and access to proper treatment can do for a butterfly child her mother says she's probably the only girl in russia who from

the very first days of her life was taken care of properly according to international standards but when she was twenty five days old i took her away from one of the best maternity wards in the country her stomach and feet were off and the marks of the doctor's fingers are still her skin back then she did look like a libby patient ever since master has lived a life of protection her medication costs roughly one hundred thousand rubles more than three thousand dollars per month she has three people constantly looking after her including her mother julia says life expectancy for such kids in russia is very low and she would do anything to make her daughter's life long unhappy. chimay beautiful and long stacked princess and if there is a pea that can hurt my princess i'll take them all away no matter what the cost. julie is also behind a newly created foundation to help other children now people from all over the country are calling her and it seems the number of suffering children is far

greater than the previously estimated one hundred s. for louisa she bravely takes on life with a smile despite her deteriorating state as a sign of trust she told me her biggest dream then maybe few children with this disease in russia but each of them needs all the support they can get they may have learned to live with their condition just like lisa friel dream of one day breaking up her life without being very pushed around r.t. moscow. a lot of us have this hours of business goes up there with your initial becoming away after work. those. little knowledge the international sanctions has to do takes place in prose on july ninth and tenth. this live introductions by russian designers to the most

beautiful just city of central russia. this is a little unfair children's version should slumbers rights of presiding over the festival. fashion festival james mrs. harlow and a very warm welcome to our business update russian companies are getting more and more eager after foreign cash research company geologic public offerings have more than doubled in advance half compared to the same period last year most were held on overseas markets and raised ten billion dollars there has also been an increase in activity in the markets here one placement has jumped around eighteen percent to seventeen billion dollars well stroke more i'm joined now by both from london capital group thank you for joining me so what's driving the company's interest in capital markets. well there's any number of reasons why anyone would want

chiefly john the stock exchange of course it doesn't it's not all plain sailing it does mean that there may be a new company to the market has to abide by certain rules and displays certain information but overall in particular with russian stalks or russian companies where often a few individuals will hold a substantial stake in those companies it means that they can realize. a significant amount of money when the stock comes to the market and that will spend. exactly what their shareholding is worth but also means that they can raise funds international investors can have access to the u.k. markets can of course invest in these growing companies get exposure to the russian market and that it does increase the company's

profile will say produces the possibility of mergers and acquisitions opens up the way for them to possibly take over competitors in other geographical areas within the same industries there's a number of reasons why any company would want to fly on the capital markets but there have been about ten russian companies attempting to float shares in london this year but only five of them actually managed to go ahead and thought of them were priced at the boston end of this range why is this. well it's clearly because investor appetite firstly this year is somewhat diminished we have quite an uncertain economic outlook on a global point from a global point of view we've had at sovereign debt concerns in europe so investors a very very particular about where their investment how their investments.

priced at the moment in particular any new companies coming to the market and historically we have seen some of these russian i.p.o.'s have been particularly highly valued. and investor appetites has been and not as good as expected and that has meant that those i.p.o.'s that have been successful in coming to market have been priced at the bottom end and some of these other companies have actually withdrawn now i.p.o.'s altogether with ink. volatility in the markets that's understandable that new investors in new companies that are coming to the market want to ensure they're getting the valuation absolutely correct. and what you say about this message what do you think is preventing the russian companies from placing stress on the domestic markets. well

the comments think market in russia is not so well known from a global standpoint of course the market in london geographically as a very central position it's well known it's well regulated in russia commercial and regulate tree still not really quite as well as stablished as they are in other western markets in particular the u.k. and so any big company any progression company that's looking to increase its profile london is a good place to list of course that doesn't mean that it's the only place to live in asia hong kong's stock market is seeing russian companies and this there as well generally on the whole the scene that valuations are set a little higher in asia say that's becoming increasingly popular for russian

markets but it's primarily to increase their profile and list on a market that's well regulated and can hold the company in high esteem and just very briefly how do you see investor sentiment for the rest of the year what's the forecast. well sentiment seems to be just improving a little bit we've certainly seen from the market's point of view a large sigh of relief in the respect that greece has passed is that there are two measures it is unlikely to default regardless of what s. and p. say. important from a so. point of view and some of the russian companies that have pulled their i.p.o. . could have very easily return later in this year possibly in two thousand and twelve and it is there's hope that the i.p.o. market will continue to recover and of course so far we've seen the i.p.u. i.p.o.

valuations hit the highs that they hit in two thousand and seven so the outlook isn't too bad because just recently we've had a very successful russian i.p.o. as you had young backs and then more recently global ports so as long as the market volatility comes down a little bit and the sentiment improve is there's every chance that the i.p.o. market could recover as well. capital group thank you very much for your analysis all we have time for join in less than twenty five minutes for another business update and also you can log on to our web site for more stories about starting a dot com business. twenty years ago largest country. to suit you crazy.